Issues/Policy

Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor News of the arrest and handing over of Abdurasheed Maina, Chairman of the controversial Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, by the Department of State Services must have been received with […]

Intending immigrants to the United States will not be granted visas if they cannot show that they can afford to pay their medical bills. President Donald Trump signed the proclamation on Friday. The proclamation, which […]

Ten years ago, news surfaced on the internet that a Nigerian engineer had won a $500 million contract to construct a monorail in Iraq.  Fast forward to 2019: the news is back again — the […]

On Tuesday, Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, addressed thousands of Nigerians at The Platform, an annual conference organised by Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos. The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]

BY ZAID JURJI AND RAPHAEL NWOZOR The Nigerian government has declared a state of emergency in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector. This action was spurred by the alarming findings revealed in the sector. […]

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) diverted funds marked for a community project was used to buy equipment for a private security firm in Delta. This was contained in the Fiscal Allocation and Statutory Disbursement […]

The present intervention owes its title to Niyi Osundare’s If Only the Road Could Talk, a collection of sublime poems engendered by his minstrelsy peregrination. Osundare, the master poet and philosopher, rethinks and reworks metaphors […]

The logic is simple. The 2019 presidential election in Nigeria cannot be, by all accounts, the worst election in the history of Nigeria without the corresponding INEC chairman being, at the same time, the worst […]

Lagos is the Centre of Excellence.The sixth most densely populated city in the world. Although Lagos is the smallest state in the Nigerian federation by land mass, it is home to over 20 million people. […]

The political leader and the religious leader have one thing in common. Both market hope. The man of God markets hopes in paradise in the after-life to persuade us to behave properly here on earth, […]

This is a trying time for the national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). I may be wrong. But recent events in Lagos State University (LASU), the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL) (see […]

tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657 For those who are interested, history is fascinating and exciting. I like to know as much of it as possible. So I took note when a historian, Prof. Sule Mohammed of the Department […]

Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun “When your hosts begin to insinuate that the rough, almost inedible end of a yam tuber is all the food that they have left at home, then, the visitor should […]

Fola Ojo, willieojo@yahoo.com In spite of Nigeria’s failings and foibles; in spite of her challenges and gobs of troubles; in spite of her citizens’ dimming hopes and faltering confidence in a flailing and labile economy; […]

India practises a robust democracy, the largest on planet earth, to guide its one billion plus citizens spread over a subcontinent territory. But the country still has the presence of vision to capture the view […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has explained why its operatives raided Fraser Suites located in Abuja. This was announced via a press release signed by Joseph Attah, the Customs public relations officer. Mr Attah said […]

It is 9:10am, and former President Goodluck Jonathan arrives at the mouth of the aircraft at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. His hat gives him away too soon as he saunters into the waiting metal bird. […]

The Nigerian Government has given details of fraudulent circumstances surrounding the Gas Supply Processing Agreement (GSPA) with Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P&ID) leading to the award of N9.6 billion dollars judgment debt against Nigeria. […]

My Dearest Five-Year Old Nigeria, I’m writing you this letter fully knowing that you’re going to think everything I’m about to tell you is complete rubbish, because at the stage you are now, you’re a […]